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If we have learnt one thing from the 22 years in which Jurgen Grobler has been
coaching British oarsmen it is that the German always gets his athletes to
peak at the right moment. The men’s eight, his top boat this season, were
ragged in Lucerne last month, pushed out of the medals at the last World
Cup, but Grobler took them off to Silvretta, his Alpine lair, changed the
seat order and worked his usual alchemy. Now they are world champions, the
first British eight to be able to say that.